The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.Thomas Carlyle

Don't give in

Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.Paulo Coelho

Encounter with God and with eternity

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.Paulo Coelho

Fear and hope

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.Baruch Spinoza

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.Plato

Fear of the worst

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fear seems to have many causes

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.Eckhart Tolle

Frightened

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.Seneca